PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 23, 27 July 1911, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS.

Mr. Keith Boulton, son of Mr. E* Boulton, J.P., of Paremata, is lying da,ngerotiely ill in tho Wellington Hospital .with typhoid fever. Mr. 13. E. Hammond, Wellington manager for the South British Idettraaco i Company, arrived from England by the Ruahine to-day, after a tour in Rtisaia, Sweden, and Germany. Erank Htttchens-, the New Zealand pianist, who has been six year* studying in London, and on the Continent, roturned by the Ruahine from London to* day, on a visit to his native land. Colonel Heard, Director of Staff Duties and Military Training, will leave for Christohurch to-morrow week, 4th August, on departmental business, and vrilf be absent from Wellington for about a week. A Press Association message from Christchurch announces tho death yesterday of the Rev. James Maxwell, Presbyterian minister of thai city and late uf Waddingtoii- He was 69 years of age, and leaves a widow, one son, and five daughters. In committee last evening the Wellington Harbo«f Board 1 accepted, the resigna* tioft of Mt. V. L. Cachemaille, the board's treasurer. The Meeting placed on record its appreciation of his services during the ten years he had been in, the board* employ. The resignation will iake effect t\# from 31sb December next. Mr. Samuel Taplin, who has been travelling for Mesm. Johnson, and Co., Ltd., metciujftfcs, Wellington, for over twenty-five years, hae retired on a pension, owing to 1 failing health. Mr. Taplin is the oldest teivetller in his fin© on ihis <oast. H© was * storekeeper in a .large way at Patea in the seventies. and /eighties. Thp following were invited to dittfle* at Government Houoe on Wednesday ! —Sir" J&fflee Carroll, the Hon. J. A, AJillar, the Hon. George IWlds, th* Hon. R, M'Kenaie, the Hon. D. Buddo, the Hon. T. Mackenzie, the Hon. A. T. jSfgftta. Sir Arthttf Guinness (Speafeer of ihe House of Representatives!, the Hon. W. 0. V. Civrnoroes (Acting Speaker of ihe Legislative Council). Mr. C. T. Parkinson, eon of Mr. W- A. 'Parkiiisofl, proprietor of the Hawera Ster, who graduated last year at Oxford, with honours in history, was on Trinity Sunday ordained deacon of th« Anglican Church. The ordination took place at Durham Cathedral, and. he has been appointed to a curacy at South Shields, one of the big mining and manufacftrring of th© Northi of England, Passengers h'om Sydney by the Moaaa last night included Dr. E. Rawflon, who ha» been on a visit to Europe, Mr. V. D. Leslie (Resident Secretary in New Zealand of the Colonial ' Mutual Life Society), Mr. Qay Johnston, Mr. <!. B. Pharassyn, and Mr. S. H. Myere, And Major Horning. The- last-named gefltlema«— who k on a tour of the world— will leave for South America by the Tongariro on. Sunday. Rev. M'Clun ■ tiffin, who hod beea forty years a. Congregational minister, and comes from Dorchester, arrived by the Ruahitie from London to-day. He was met by Revs. W. A, Evans and Macdonald Asplantl, representing the Wellington Congregational District Committee, Mr, tffan will succeed Rev. W. 3?. Fernie as minister of Leith-«treet Church, Buttedin, where \m niarrkd daughter resides, Mr. I'ernio will be jemombered as having been Mr. Aspland's predecessor at Courtenay-pkce Church. Captain W. R. Pimvell, Ist Battalion Liverpool Regiment, and Captain J. X.' Cochraiid. lieinsfer Regiment, were pas-> sot]ger« by the Ruahine from London today. They have come out under engagement lo the Government for three yearn in connection with the Defence scheme. Captain Pinwell was in the South African wav and in the defence of Ladysmith, and waa mentioned in despatches. Captain Coehrane eerved for some years in the West African Frontier Force, and took part in tho expedition against Bida in Northern Nigeria in 1901. Mt, T. P. Halpin, an old Wellington boy, who was a sergeant in the City Pviiles some years ago, and distinguished himself in shooting competitions, and later w.ijs a captain in the Ninth* Contingent, !/• now oil tits (in of Reserve officers, with the rank of major. Mi*. Hal pin has for some time" past beeiii manager of Messrs. Macky, Logan, Cald« wfell and Co.'s Napier branch, but haa relinquished that position to take ovea? tho business in Wellington of Mr, . Henry Hope, who Jsv going to England. Before leaving Napier, where he- has resided for twenty years, Mr, J. _ Vigor Brown, AI.P., on behalf of the citizens, presented Mr. Halpin with an illuminated address and a, purso of sovereigns, Eulogistic speeches were mad© by Messrs, J. H. Coleman, S. Harris, tf, W. Triggs (Archibald, Clark and Co.), W. Slmm (Blythe and Co,), and R, Bishop (Sargood, Son and liv/en). The employees of Macky, Logan, Caldwell and Co, presented Mr. Halpin with a handsome liqueur stand, Mr. F, H. Williams, his successor, ma,kini| the presentation. Captain R. E, Smith, late master of the Mokom, retired from the service of the TJaion Steitm Ship Company on Monday, says the Otago Daily Times, h& having reached the age limit prescribed by the the company's regulations. Captain Smith, who has had an honourable career as a seaman, first went to sea as a Jad in March, 1862, on a ship trading to the We&b Indies and the Mediterranean. His initial trip to ihe colonies was made in the Queen Bee in 1860. The l'eturri Home was nmd« in the Christian M'Causland, and. on that occasion the present Minister of Railways (the_ Hon. J. A. Millar) was senior, apprentice. He returned to New Zealand in the Shaw, Savill, and Albion fct'jamer Zealandia, and entered the coastal service as chief offieel! of the Lady of the Lake and later of the Ino, both of which vessels traded to Catliiis and the Molyiteux River. He left that service in August, 1877, and joined the Union Company, being appointed chief j officer of the Taiaroa, and later actingmaster, and finally master of the Beau- j tii'ul Star— his first command. He theft eoittmaflded successively tho larger ships Omapftre, Poherua,' Ovalau, Taviuni, and during th© last eight years the 6,5. Mokoia. At different times Captain Smith has relieved as t master on all the company's intercolonial and foreign vessels. At a meeting of the directors and heads of staffs of the U.S.S. Co. at Dunedin on Monday Mr. John Roberts, C.M.G., on behalf of the directors, presented Captain Smith with a very handsome marble clock, and at the same time expressed the very high opinion they entertained of his qualifications as a si'iloi' add of hii qualities as a man. Captain Smith is vary favourably known among the travelling public, and his retirement from active service will be very ninth regiettcd among tile wide circle of li'iuttds he has made throughout the colonies,